Shared Air Quality Stories
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Jennifer M. In Nevada, where my boyfriend and I live, we don't have as many non-smoking rights as some other states, and people of course are allowed to smoke in casinos, and some multi-unit condos.
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Jessica G. I have terrible allergies, and poor air quality makes them worse. I have seen the direct impact of bad air.
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Jennifer S. My neighbors burn straight coal in their wood burners, my mom lives next door and has COPD.
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Rick H. We have a redevelopment project going on very near our home on the west side of Cleveland, OH.
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James A. Air quality has made it hard to breathe and so we all must do something to change it so that asthma and all lung problems can be a thing of the past.
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Lisa C. I live in a Section 8 affordable living apartment building in Fullerton, California. I am disabled and live alone with my beloved companion chihuahua.
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Bruce K. The biggest threat to children’s health is destabilization of Earth’s climate.
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Amy S. For 30 years as a teacher, I watched more and more of my students begin to require the use of inhalers until my retirement in 2011.
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Tiffany K. Asthma has impacted my life greatly. I went from running around in corn fields in MS to working in a populated area like Chicago and that's when the problems started.
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Vicky B. The air was tested in my home that I rent and it is nine times higher than normal.
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Alan T. As a Dual Citizen of Canada, an engineer whose entire career has been focused upon eliminating air pollution and addressing the Anthropogenic Climate Change Crisis, I have lived with an asthma condition ever since moving to West Virginia.
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Eugenia S. Today I emailed four local news channels in Tucson, 4, 9, 11 and 13, asking them to post air quality numbers, along with the temperatures in TV weather reports.
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Brianna M. Oregon is suffering right now tremendously. Not only have so many lives been lost from the wild fires raging out state but now we are suffering hazardous air quality!
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Adasha K. I am a 52-year-old mother of three, grandma of two. I live in a county where the EPA does not have air quality stations present.
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Dr. Christine H. Climate change poses serious threats to the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat.
